The McGill Daily is a campus newspaper created and run by students of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The paper was first published in 1911. As such, it is one of North America's oldest student papers.

The paper was originally published daily, but is now issued only twice a week. While it began as a broadsheet that covered mainly sports, it is now comprised of multiple pages and covers a range of topics and genres. The paper's main sections are news, culture, mind & body, features, commentary and science & technology.

Since 1980, The Daily has been independent from student government. It is published by the Daily Publications Society, whose membership automatically includes all McGill undergraduate students. Along with The McGill Tribune, it is one of the most widely read student publications at McGill. In fact, it currently claims to be the second-largest student newspaper in Canada, with a weekly circulation of 28,000 as of 2005 (together with its francophone sister version, Le Délit français).

Some of the Daily's past contributors who have gone on to fame include:

• Donna Balkan, first executive director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (now the Canadian Association of Journalists)
• Leonard Cohen, poet and songwriter
• Irwin Cotler, international human rights lawyer and Member of Parliament
• Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post and TIME columnist
• Irving Layton, poet
• Phyllis Platt, executive director of arts and entertainment at the CBC

A longer list is available at the official website of the publication, where an online version of the paper is also published.

See also Le Délit français.

External link

• Official Site

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